Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Electric Company v. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 8, 1985No. 84-1591PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
On April 5,1980 the Nantucket ferry, the 213 foot steamship NAUSHON, owned and operated by defendant Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, departed Nantucket at 7:00 a.m., bound west for Woods Hole. In Vineyard Sound she developed boiler feed-pump problems, and lost some, and eventually all power. At 10:35 a.m. her master, E.B. Jackson, ordered the starboard anchor dropped. The tide was flooding eastward in excess of two knots, and there is a strong indication that the anchor did not set, but dragged a considerable distance…
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